Guess you bought a storage device from this shop with a capacity of 512 'somewhat' (GB ?). Without knowing which device you mean (give a link to the device, a photo, a datasheet), the usual ssd or hard disk devices are advertised in k-Bytes, M-bytes which the producer gives in decimal units k=1000, M=10^6 (10 power 6 =1.000.000), G=10^9. Shows higher values and eventually results in higher selling numbers. The operating systems give bytes in binary units k=2^10, m=2^20 etc which is more IT-ish but gives smaller numbers. So this could be the first 'loss cause'.Amazon basic 512 is only displaying 469 total storage
Next, when formatting disks there is especially for SSD an old advice not to use full capacity but have some 10% unused for the flash cell wearing algorithm.
If you use this device as a boot device, then linux distribution needs many files for operating system, config files, tools, log files and applications. Reduces free space even more, but without these files the 'fun factor' would be zero as nothing would work.
Use 'df -h' in a terminal window to have a look to the capacity.
Statistics: Posted by ghp — Sat Mar 02, 2024 8:11 am
